EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강
1 언어의 준규칙성
We are able to speak and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of ____
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages must be systematic ____ than arbitrary.
However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners ____ be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such ____ “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
The ____ of these conflicting pressures is quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve ____ up speaking a language and become a fluent reader.
Mastering ____ patterns is much harder for people learning English as a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
2 훌륭한 광고의 본질
We are able to speak and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, ____ of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, ____ so languages must be systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility ____ speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” ____ and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
The product of these ____ pressures is quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking a language and become a ____ reader.
Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people learning ____ as a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
3 지구의 에너지 사용에 대한 인간의 진화
Life on our planet can be arranged, more or less, into autotrophs and heterotrophs, organisms that exploit energy from the sun ____ chemical reactions, and organisms that take energy from those who’ve already captured it.
What is unusual about our species is that we’ve been ____ to use more and more energy without having to evolve into a different species.
____ achieved this through a combination of social learning, complex culture, and technologies.
We don’t have to speciate to gain ____ claws of an allosaurus; we can share information to design a warhead or a power station.
In other words, ____ change our tools rather than our bodies.
Fire and spears did the trick for hundreds of thousands of years, until ____ devised the domestication of our food sources.
The next big shift came in the mechanisation of processes that gave ____ the Industrial Revolution.
This enabled us to draw ancient deposits of organic energy out ____ the Earth and burn them.
4 전 세계 미디어 기관이 직면한 어려움
Media institutions across the globe are facing multiple crises: ____ funding, trust, representation, accountability and legitimacy.
____ many of the countries that make up capitalism’s core, the newspaper and magazine industry is in serious decline as large digital intermediaries take over the majority of advertising revenue.
Much of the debate about the sustainability of the ____ industry circulates around debates relating to this ‘broken business model’.
Local news in ____ is increasingly under threat.
In the ____ the majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer served by a local daily newspaper.
To retain high levels of profitability, media corporations have closed or merged titles ____ cut jobs, often moving journalists long distances away from the communities they serve and no longer being able to provide content of relevance to them.
In short, a ____ response means media become ever more unsustainable.
5 인간이 개입한 자연환경
The complexity of human intervention in nature means that the ecosystems have ____ to adapt — or in many cases die out.
Ancient woodland exists ____ in small pieces in Britain now.
Many of these remnants are ____ in nature reserves and national parks.
They need specific protection. ____ habitats have been created with their own ecosystems.
The urbanization of the landscape and the creation of road and railway corridors have given ____ the garden habitats that many species thrive in.
Motorway roadsides with higher salt deposits ____ salt-loving plants otherwise found along the coast.
____ provide abundant road-kill for scavengers.
These may be poor substitutes for what they replace, but they are habitats ____ can add more if properly managed.
The natural environment we may seek to conserve is the natural environment we have in part ____
6 마음을 프로그램하는 주체들
For most of us, our minds have been programmed by a combination of factors — our friends, ____ parents, the mass media, and advertisers.
Some of these agents of programming truly know you and have your best interests in mind as they reinforce your special strengths and help you overcome your ____ weaknesses; they are trying to make you happier and make your life better.
Other agents of programming are trying to use you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are ____ very different from your own goals.
When this occurs, the programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve problems you don’t have and make worse the problems ____ do have.
When you allow others to dominate the programming of your mind, then when your mind runs on automatic ____ you end up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those programmers rather than behaving in ways that would make you happier.
Therefore, it is important that you periodically ____ the code that has been programmed into your mind.